I usually learn more from the situations I hate than the ones I love.

Take what people give you. Drink their milkshakes.

Its the most breathtakingly ironic things about living: the fact that we are all-identical twins included-alone. Singular. And yet what we seek-what saves us-is our connection to others.

I cried because I had no shoes. Then I met a man who had no feet.

Love is like breathing, you take it in and let it out.

Eastern Connecticut is very different from Western; we're more liverwurst than pâté, more bowling than polo.

The seeker embarks on a journey to find what he wants and discovers, along the way, what he needs.

Change what you can, accept what you can't, and be smart enough to know the difference

If you want your prayers answered, get up off your knees and do something about them.

All the dead bolts, pulled shades and hidden knives in the world couldn't protect you from the truth.

If the book is true, it will find an audience that is meant to read it.

A human being is a part of the whole, called by us "Universe", a part limited in time and space.

It would be pretty funny to see a Beverly Hills white girl with mad rap skills.

Creativity means to push open the heavy, groaning doorway to life.

The actual writing time is a lot shorter than the thinking time.

I'm here to tell you that I am proud of a couple of things. First, I am very good at projectile vomiting. Second, I've never had a really serious venereal disease.

A writer, or any artist, can’t expect to be embraced by the people [but] you just keep doing your work - because you have to, because it’s your calling.

She was right about something else too," Dimitri said after a long pause.... "That I do still love you.

I am persuaded that the rights of woman, like the rights of slaves, need only be examined to be understood and asserted.

The only service you can do for anyone is to remind them of their true nature.

Physical and psychological spaces of an organization work in tandem to define the effectiveness of the people within it